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Flooding possible. Be prepared.
High tides and forecast weather conditions over the next three days may lead to flooding.
Flooding is possible 2 hours either side of high tide on Thursday evening and Friday morning.
Areas particularly at risk include exposed coastal areas of Plymouth Sound including Cawsand, Kingsand and The Hoe.
High tide at Plymouth is at 8:11pm on Thursday evening and 8:24am on Friday morning. Times of high water will vary along the coast. Forecast total high tide level is 2.39mAOD and 2.99mAOD respectively. Expect tide levels along the coast to be between 0.4m and 0.7m higher than tide table level. Offshore wave heights of around 3.0m are forecast with Force 3 South Westerly and Force 6 South Easterly winds respectively.
Further alerts and warnings may be issued over the weekend.
We are closely monitoring the situation .
Avoid coastal roads, footpaths and carparks, which may be flooded .
This message will be updated by 3:00PM on 23 January 2026 or as the situation changes.
Information supplied by the Environment Agency
This information last updated 1:12pm, Thursday 22nd January.
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Plymouth Sound including Cawsand, Kingsand, Millbrook, The Hoe, and the Tidal Lynher, Tamar, Tavy, Plym and Yealm estuaries
Region: Devon and Cornwall
Country: England
Counties covered: Cornwall, Devon, Plymouth
Watercourses covered: South Cornwall Coast
The area bounded in blue on the map shows the area covered by flood alerts and warnings for Plymouth Sound, Wembury Bay and tidal estuaries.
Note: the area shown on the map is the area covered by flood alerts and warnings. It is not a live map of current flooding. The area covered broadly equates to the area where the risk of flooding in any year is greater than 1% (the "hundred year" flood risk).
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